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COVID Money Tracker Launches to Enhance Transparency
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress has already approved more than $2 trillion in fiscal measures to deal with the unprecedented economic and public health... -
Eugene Steuerle: Who Should Pay For The Economic Relief From The COVID-19 Crisis?
Read moreAs Republicans and Democrats joined hands to provide the most recent of what might be several stages of relief from our national pandemic crisis... -
Budget Projections: Debt Will Exceed the Size of the Economy This Year
Read moreThe United States entered the current public health and economic crisis facing high levels of debt and trillion-dollar deficits. Due to the effects of... -
Bernie Sanders's Coronavirus Relief Package
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released his Priorities for the Next Coronavirus Relief Package, a plan to build on... -
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Will Cost $192 Billion
Read moreLast week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ( FFCRA), the second of three packages enacted so... -
A Visualization of the CARES Act
Read moreThe President yesterday signed into law the CARES Act, a $2.3 trillion relief package aimed at ameliorating some of the effects of the economic... -
What's in the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package?
Read moreUpdated on 4/21/2020 and 4/29/2020 to reflect the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate and subsequent revisions. Lawmakers recently approved... -
These Provisions Have No Place in an Emergency Bill
Read moreNegotiators continue to work on a third response bill to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with legislation proposed today by House Democrats and... -
Don’t Play Politics with the Coronavirus Response
Read moreFor Immediate Release Policymakers are currently drafting legislation to mitigate the economic damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic... -
Policymakers Should Act Quickly and Responsibly to Boost the Economy
Read moreFor Immediate Release The threat of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has spooked markets and appears likely to significantly weaken the economy on... -
Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Read moreAppropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion... -
Bernie Sanders's Plan for Universal Child Care and Pre-K Education
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today unveiled his plan to provide free universal child care and pre-kindergarten...